Download logoWith customary laws allowing for early, often forced marriages, and with the effects of these relations frequently obstructing the participation of girls and young women in most... Read more

Download logoAccording to a UN women report released in September 2022, at the current rate of progress it will take up to 286 years to close gender gaps in legal protection and remove discr... Read more

Recently, in Torit, residents of Ifwanyak, celebrated the handover of a newly constructed police post by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). These small-scale, low-budget int... Read more

Download logoAs South Sudan’s partner for peace, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), is helping supplement efforts towards this young nation’s democratic transiti... Read more

Download logoIncidents of gender-based violence, with girls and women making up the vast majority of those being subjected to it, are increasing in Eastern Equatoria State. At a recent consu... Read more

With a 24-month extension in its ongoing transitional period, communities and leaders in South Sudan are drafting this young nation’s permanent constitution and gearing up to head to t... Read more

Download logoImpunity is a major driver of the human rights and humanitarian crises in South Sudan, which continue to cause immense trauma and suffering for civilians in the country, the... Read more

Women and girls continue to be gang-raped and survivors have been described as “zombies, physically and emotionally dead”, according to the UN Commission on Human Rights in the world’s young... Read more